Review Student Content

Content Review Requirements

Teachers must use the Review Content tools to regularly monitor the following types of content created by students in their school:

• Pictures: Review all pictures uploaded by students in your school, and approve or delete them.
• Reported Content: Review all reported content items created by students in your school, and approve or delete them.

Warning! It is a requirement for teachers to regularly review student content. Any teacher in a school can review content (not just School Administrators). If a school has content that is unreviewed for 60 days, all student accounts will be disabled and students will not be able to regain access to ThinkQuest Projects until content is reviewed.

If your school will be closed for an extended vacation or holiday, the School Administrator should set a vacation period in School Settings in order to restrict student access to ThinkQuest Projects during that time. In addition, vacation periods are not counted when determining whether a school has reviewed content in the past 60 days.

Review Pictures

Teachers must regularly review pictures uploaded by students, and approve or delete them. Pictures are visible before they are approved, but should be reviewed for appropriateness.

To review pictures:

1. Click the My School tab.
2. Click Review Content in the menu on the left.
3. Click Pictures.
4. Review the picture(s). Each picture is accompanied by the name of the student who uploaded it, the upload date, the title, and a link to the page where the picture appears.
5. Select the "Approve" or "Delete" radio button next to each picture ("Approve" is the default unless a picture has been reported).
   • If you choose to delete a picture, enter the reason in the "Notify Student" text box (optional, but recommended).
   • You cannot delete an individual picture from a picture set; you must delete the entire set if it contains one inappropriate picture.
6. Once you have reviewed all images on the page, click the Apply button.

7. Pictures you chose to delete will be removed and a message with the reason will be sent to the student(s).

Review Reported Content

Teachers must regularly review reported content items created by students, teachers, or moderators and approve or delete them.

To review reported content:

1. Click the My School tab.
2. Click Review Content in the menu on the left.
3. Click Reported Content.
4. Review the reported content item(s). Each content item is accompanied by the name of the student who created it, the date it was created, the title, a link to the page where the content appears, and the name of the student, teacher, or moderators who reported it.
5. Select the "Approve" or "Delete" radio button next to each picture ("Delete" is the default).
   • If you choose to delete an item, enter the reason in the "Notify Student" text box (optional, but recommended).
   • You cannot delete an individual picture from a picture set; you must delete the entire set if it contains one inappropriate picture.
6. Once you have reviewed all reported content, click the Apply button.

7. Content you chose to delete will be removed and a message with the reason will be sent to the student(s). Content you approved will be un-reported and visible to students again.

Bad Language List

The Bad Language list contains inappropriate words that members of your school are prohibited from entering in any text or message within ThinkQuest Projects. When your school is first set up in ThinkQuest Projects, the Bad Language list is automatically populated with a default list of words based on your country.

All teachers can view the Bad Language list, but only School Administrators can add to and edit it. Students cannot see the Bad Language list.

To add words to the Bad Language list:

1. Click the My School tab.
2. Click Review Content in the menu on the left.
3. Click Bad Language.
4. Click the Add Bad Language button.

5. Enter words, and click the Save button.

To edit the Bad Language list:

1. Click the My School tab.
2. Click Review Content in the menu on the left.
3. Click Bad Language.
4. Click the word you want to edit.

5. Make edits, and click the Save button.

To delete a word from the Bad Language list:

1. Click the My School tab.
2. Click Review Content in the menu on the left.
3. Click Bad Language.
4. Click the word you want to delete.
5. Click the Delete button.